AP-GfK Poll: Recession Helps GOP Against Democrats (MSM spin: Dems "victims" of recession)

(cr)AP via ABCnews.com ^ | April 25, 2010 | Alan Fram

[WeatherGuy]

Notch one more victim of the recession: With crucial midterm elections nearing, Democrats have lost the advantage they've held for years as the party the public trusts to steer the economy.The timing could be fortunate for the Republicans.

With jobs and the economy dominating voters' concerns, the GOP will wield the issue as a cudgel in the battle to grab control of at least one chamber of Congress this November and weaken President Barack Obama.

[BobS]

So far, the rats are believing their polls.

[hstacey]

Yeah...sure...it’s the recession....yeah that’s right...Morons!!!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Weaken” Obama. How about Crush, Annihilate, Destroy, Wipe Out, Put in the dust bin of history. To hell with “weaken.”

[sickoflibs]

Purely bad luck... we all know the stimulus worked...Krugman said so.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

“To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women”

[mlocher]

Some of Obama's top economic initiatives have also failed to deliver political dividends because, economists say, they have largely prevented the recession from worsening rather than sparking immediate improvements.

And the whirlpool of spin continues, sucking as many people into the swirling eye as they can. Name one economist that believes the stimulus worked.

[Brilliant]

The Dems never deserved the polling advantage they had on the economy. The only reason they had it is that they were not in control until now.

[Brilliant]

Actually, what Krugman said is that the economy is so bad because the deficit is too small. Should be $3 trillion or $4 trillion instead of that measily $1.6 trillion.

[Brilliant]

So these economists don’t think the recession has worsened? They are living in a fantasy.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”Actually, what Krugman said is that the economy is so bad because the deficit is too small. Should be $3 trillion or $4 trillion instead of that measily $1.6 trillion.”

You are 100% correct, yet he also says the crushing deficit will force us to cut entitlements and to rationing health care...Yet he never said this before all this stuff was passed. Back then he said it was no big deal, the debt was good for us.

[Brilliant]

Yes and he trashed Bush for running deficits that were 1/4 the size.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”Yes and he trashed Bush for running deficits that were 1/4 the size.”

Because Krugman objects to ‘tax cut’ deficits, government spending deficits are healthy according to him.

You would think by now he would be discredited after Obama-nomics.